Well it is. You can make branching as complex or as simple as you want. Where I work the developers are only ever exposed to the feature branch they are working

Well it is. You can make branching as complex or as simple as you want. Where I work the developers are only ever exposed to the feature branch they are working on, which is even created automagically for each Jira ticket from the correct release/integration/dev branch. So for a developer it really couldn't be any simpler.